Konrad Schaller

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Konrad "Conny" Schaller (born November 3, 1943 in Borna ; † February 24, 2017 ) was a German soccer player and soccer coach. In the GDR Oberliga, the top division of the GDR football association , he played for SC Leipzig and BSG Wismut Aue .

Soccer career

Soccer player

Konrad Schaller began playing soccer with activist Witznitz in 1953 and later joined activist Borna and Stahl Lippendorf . In Lippendorf he last played in the then fourth-class district league . Under the later GDR national coach Rudolf Krause , he became district champion with the team in 1962 and thus helped them advance to the 2nd GDR league, the third-highest level at the time. Together with coach Krause, he moved to the newly founded SC Leipzig for the 1963/64 season . Schaller completed his first league game for Leipzig on October 13, 1963 at SC Turbine Erfurt (1-1) as a half-right striker. The 21-year-old Schaller could not prevail against the Leipzig parade tower Trölitzsch , Fischer , Engelhardt , Frenzel and Gase in his two-year time at SC Leipzig, in 1963/64 he played five and 1964/65 twelve league games and scored a total of only three goals . Mainly Schaller was used in the reserve team.

In the summer of 1965 Konrad Schaller moved to the upper division BSG Wismut Aue . He played his first league game for Aue at the start of the season at SC Magdeburg (0-0) on August 14, 1965 as a striker on half right. In his first appearance in front of his own audience four days later against ASK Vorwärts Berlin, he played his way into the hearts of the audience when he scored the 2-1 winning goal, but then injured himself. Since it was not allowed to be replaced at this time, he persevered doggedly. The legendary speaking choir also comes from this time: “What Helmut Haller is for Germany, Konrad Schaller is for Wismut.” Despite the injury, Schaller made 20 league appearances this season and had established himself as a regular at Wismut at the end of the season. Until the end of his career in 1978, he was a permanent member of the team. From May to October 1975, Schaller was drafted into reservist service and during this time he played for the second division team Vorwärts Dessau . From 1976 he finally moved into midfield, but was still good for goals in every season - only in the 1972/73 season he remained without a goal for the Auer. Schaller began his last season as a football player at the age of 33. He came in 1977/78 as a midfielder to 23 league games and with five championship goals again demonstrated his scoring risk. He played his last league game on May 27, 1978 at home against BFC Dynamo (0: 4). Also against the BFC Dynamo, he was passed a quarter of a year later on August 26, 1978 from football. For Wismut Aue, he completed 296 league games with 42 goals and 23 FDGB-Pokal games with 4 goals.

Although Konrad Schaller was one of the best midfielders in GDR football in his time, he only played two youth internationals in 1966 and one B internationals in 1968.

coach

Schaller has already worked as a coach in recent years as a football player. He started with the fourth division Motor Lößnitz, which he led in 1978 in the district league. In 1980 he became assistant coach at Wismut Aue under Manfred Fuchs . He held this position until 1985. When head coach Harald Fischer resigned in October 1985, Schaller was appointed coach of the league team on October 13th until the end of 1985. The new head coach Hans Speth took on Schaller again as assistant coach. In November 1990, Schaller and head coach Jürgen Escher were fired from the club, which was now called FC Wismut Aue . Schaller went back to his old homeland Borna and in 1991 became coach of the amateur league club BSV Borna , where his son Sylvio then played. In 1994, Schaller took over the coaching position of ZFC Meuselwitz , with whom he rose within two years via the district league to the state class (7th division). The last coaching station was on January 3, 2007 at Sportfreunde Neukieritzsch in the Leipzig district class.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Violets mourn Konrad Schaller. In: fc-erzgebirge.de. FC Erzgebirge Aue e. V., March 1, 2017, archived from the original on March 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 1, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schaller, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schaller, Conny (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Borna , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2017